Here are the main changes:
– Complete rewrite of almost the entire code-base into cleaner, more readable and modular code.
– The conversion process has been optimized at every step, with a big overall speed increase.
– The input image has moved from the main panel into a new widget, plus lots of other UI changes.
– Batch conversion has been completely rewritten with a new and more usable interface.
– The settings form and the whole settings system have been rewritten, and it now automatically saves to a new data file when you press ok.
– Several memory leaks have been fixed, as have all known bugs.
– Added support for handling multiple translation files.

Click here for the full and scary change log: Ascgen 2.0 Changes. Some of the things were changed and rewritten multiple times since the last version, but I’ve gone through and I think it’s more or less correct now.

Also, you may have noticed that this site has had a nice revamp and clean-up. The tutorial is up to date and the faq page has been rewritten using a nice plugin. Please let me know if you have question that isn’t covered: FAQ. Also screenshots!

Please let people know about this release. This project will only continue forward if it gets enough support, so it would be great if you used the sharing buttons just below this post. Donating a couple of $ would also be greatly appreciated.

25 thoughts on “Ascgen 2.0 Released!”

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Annulla
Traduzione da italiano verso inglese
Hi,
sorry for my English is not perfect, I’m Italian, ascgen use for a long time and I find it amazing software, well made and easy to use.
In these years I have shed much the voice, and this I think you can see from the many downloads from the servers called Italians.
I’m a fan of ASCII art, and more.
I love the story of the ascii code and all the way from when Bob Bermer in 1960, for the free time gave birth to this unique code.
Thanks to the programmer software ascgen.
I hope that one day the same software can also make changes to the color.
Sincere regards,
Joseph

Hi, colour output has never worked for variable width fonts. It would need to mix and calculate the colours for the different widths, and that’s really hard. No promises, but I will look into ways I could do it.

The image brightness/contrast basically did the same job as the text brightness/contrast, but you couldn’t see the effect being applied to the output in real time. To make things simpler I decided to remove it.

I’ll try and find another way to have the input image show the adjustment.

Hi!
Thanks for your ASCII Generator. It is realy amazing programm. We use it a lot in or website. But it is realy hard to do animation like this http://asciiporno.livejournal.com/27233.html . It can be your next level to upgrade ASCII Generator – let him make animation from GIF files. Thank you a lot!